Sasa Stupar:
> Jay Lee wrote: >> Sasa Stupar wrote: >> > >>> I am thinking to move my server (FC3) from the office room to a >>> basement and to connect it via wireless network. I am just wondering >>> which PCI cards (or USB) works well under FC3 and are not very >>> complicated to setup? I have a Netgear wi-fi router WGT624GR. > >> >> >> I really wouldn't suggest this. Wireless is great but at it's best >> it's not going to be as reliable and fast as good ol' CAT5. At it's >> worst, you'll get dropped server connections, poor performance, data >> corruption, lots of bad things. Put your wireless AP|router in the >> basement and the server right next to it, connection via CAT5. As >> far as card recommendations, Atheros based chips work pretty well >> with the madwifi driver. >>
> I can't move my router into basement since I don't have a line there > so that's why I wanted to use wireless. I really don't need speed of > CAT5 (100Mbit) but this router can manage up to 108 Mbit link (if you > are close enough) and my distance will be 10 meters with two brick > walls so I think it shouldn't drop link to less than 54 Mbit. > Atheros based chips - well if I by card over internet I really don't > know if it has this kind of chips since this is not advertised in the > selling leaflet.
Most cards can be found at: <http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison>
In addition, googling on card makes is often a good way to find out the chipset (and sometimes the manufacturer's website will even tell you).
This is a short overview: <http://users.linpro.no/janl/hardware/wifi.html>
For the record I'm using an Edimax 7128g (PCI). It's not on that list, but it is based on a Ralink rt2500 chipset. I suspect the driver of causing occassional freezes, but generally it works well. I would echo comments about dropped connections though, since I've found two Belkin F5D7132UK4 802.11g router/modems with a tendency to give up (with other wireless cards and OSes too). I haven't used any other make of access point yet, but I get the impression most have their issues from time to time.
-- imalone
